New Club Opening

New Club Opening - Every Community Deserves a Kiwanis Club
Isn't that a great goal - every community deserves a Kiwanis Club? We can NOT do that without YOU!
We are in the last 6 months of the 2018-19 administrative year of Hank's Helping Hands and we need to open more clubs in our district. If you can identify a community where we can open a new club please contact your lieutenant governor immediately. Your lieutenant governor will get in touch with the division New Club Opening Chair and/or the New Club Opening Zone Chair and form a team with you to start the process. If all else fails, contact me directly and I will take action.
The process is the same for strengthening a club. Contact Membership Chair Past Gov. Eric Paul who will help form a team to help strengthen a club. If all else fails, contact me directly and I will take action.
We found that we were somewhat successful in recruiting former SLP members to join existing and/or new clubs in the past year. Graduation is just around the corner, so seek out graduating seniors in high school and/or universities/colleges. Key Clubbers and Circle Kers joining for the FIRST time get the $65 new member add fee waived and international and district dues for the following two administrative years. They only thing they would pay for is the Kiwanis magazine, liability and officer insurance totaling $25. Clubs may want to absorb that cost as well as an incentive to get young SLPs to join for the first time.
As of March 31, we have two new clubs opened (goal is 10) and have a net +271 gain and have 510 new member adds (with a goal of 978).
I look forward to working with all of you to spread Kiwanis into new communities or communities that used to have Kiwanis Clubs for the rest of the 2018-19 year. My email is: pepster@aol.com. My cell is 315-436-2157.

Column Posted on Web Site May 20, 2019